Spyder4TV Improves Flat Panel Picture

Spyder Meters have a tendency to read Red too High.
Don't know if the Bungee cables are adjustable or not, but after several years of calibrating my sets, found the Mid Point is not necessarily the Best Point to calibrate due to non-uniformity across most of todays Panels. Calman 5 has one of the Work flows that gets you to move the Meter around the Screen to find the Best Calibrating Point. Also due to the non-uniformity of the Panel, it's best to TriPod Mount the Meter to get more of an Average Reading, rather than Single Point on the Panel.

Thanks for ruining my dreams lmao j/k ... I just thought this sounded like a possible buy and try but after that I think I'll pass

Will definitely be looking forward to what the specialists have to say about this. Thanks, P5B.

I think I would go with CalMAN 5 w/ C3 colorimeter bundle from SpectraCal which Amazon has for $149

I used an older Spyder 5 or so years ago with a high end gaming LCD, it did make a noticeable improvement. The system is good and this one looks even better.

Curious as to how accurate it is.

Bought one of these a few months ago and returned it as I didn't like the picture it calibrated to. Was far too vibrant, flesh tones were saturated and not by anymeans anything close to any ISF calibrated tv I've seen before. Returned it.
Edited by hybridfive - 2/17/13 at 4:58am

Thanks for the only post of someone who has tried it. I want something but I'm still looking.

I still put my money on the DVD/BD essentials discs for the inputs for my disc players and I use the test patterns I saved several years back from HDNet for my DVR.

I could probably get better results from a pro, but since I use an LCD panel in my living room instead of a well controlled home theater room, I'm not willing to get that far into it. My main goal was getting the screen out of torch mode and to give me accurate flesh tones in real world situations. The fact that I got far better than that is gravy.

For what it's worth, I used to have a Spider back in my CRT days for my computer. When I tried one out for the LCD screen I had later, I really didn't find it worked as well or as accurately. Just eyeing it produced more accurate results - but then again, I look at video levels all day at work and I've gotten to the point where I can see minor levels issues before I even look down at the video scope.

Ask experts outskirts of the visual system and application software CalMAN Spyder4TV kit which is better. This program was brought in with me. No training on the picture, then I sold it. Usually they do not sell it 4-5 years ago when the price was too expensive.Training needs to be adjusted before it was to be sold to me.

Well, I think that's the crux of the issue:

There are far better options out there than the Spyder that don't involve paying for an ISF pro. When I used a Spyder on a flat panel, I could easily see it wasn't right. I used other tools that were less expensive to get the job done - and that's how I handled my TV later. Honestly, I could have eyed it better than using the Spyder.

The fact is, with most panels, just toning down the backlight, brighness and color levels and reducing the excess sharpness will improve the picture measurably. Beyond that, the TVs aren't too bad out of the box. Anything else is really room dependent.